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It’s crazy to think that I’ve already gone to my last first football game, performed in my first show of the school year and started rehearsals for my final Dance Downtown. When everyone got back to campus I actually felt old. I was walking through a sea of 18 year olds with their families and I was just in awe of the simple fact that I was in their shoes three years ago. It’s hard to see it when it’s […]

Happy full moon + summer solstice everyone! I don’t know a lot about astrology, but I’ve been trying to gain more knowledge because I don’t think it’s possible for there to be planets out there that have absolutely no effect on us on Earth. So, to share the importance of this period of time I am going to include a Twitter thread from Brittany Josephina, @brittanyphina on Twitter and the face behind Brittspiration.com, to further explain this very restorative period of […]

Warning: This is a rather lengthy post but it is so, so worth it. It’s been about a two months since we returned to Columbus from Salvador, Bahia. In that time I’ve completed my third year of undergrad and jumpstarted my senior project… my senior project. Already. We stepped foot onto campus at a time that shows no mercy—the end of the semester—and with that said, I hadn’t been able to write about the most momentous experience of my life thus […]

How is it even possible that I am laying in my bed back home in Chicago finally relaxing for the first time since winter break? It feels like I just went through orientation yesterday, how am I finished with my junior year of college? I was just rocking my only Ohio State T-shirt around the halls of Whitney Young Magnet High School on Decision Day, how on earth am I preparing for my senior year already?! Year three: The year […]

(Gotta love the pun in the title, amiright?) This school year I have had the pleasure of working with Christine Ghinder again for her senior thesis project. I cannot truly describe the evolution of the piece since we began in August/September but it has been a crazy, fun roller coaster ride! “Prism” was a work that aimed to address the intersectionality between dance, music and visual art (painting in this case). What started as a very abstract project became something to […]

I was just sitting in my room listening to the soothing sounds of Lianne La Havas on Spotify and I felt so… happy and carefree. Ever catch yourself just sitting alone and smiling at nothing in particular? I’ve been doing it a lot lately and honestly, it feels a little crazy. Four years ago I was one of the most pessimistic people you could be and still have friends. I thought I was on the borderline of realism but in […]

At the end of 2013, I thought I’d already made the big transition I was expecting coming out of high school. I’d survived my first semester of college and was absolutely loving it. I felt as if I wasn’t even transitioning anymore. Low and behold, 2014 rolled around and changed everything. By December of last year I was already past the girl I was when I walked across the stage of the Arie Crown in June but a year after […]